Panoramic: Automotive and Mobility 2025
Stephen Weinstein
Senior Associate Corporate & Finance
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
Stephen Weinstein focuses his practice on advising clients on the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, domestic and cross-border transactions, divestitures, restructurings, joint ventures, partnerships, and minority investments.
Stephen regularly advises clients on U.S. tax issues that arise in complex transactions with a particular focus on deals involving private companies and professional sports franchise owners, leagues, and investors.
Prior to joining Hogan Lovells, Stephen was a tax associate in the Washington, D.C. office of another global law firm. Before that, Stephen was a manager at a leading accounting firm in their International Tax and Transaction Services group with a focus on U.S. federal income tax matters, mergers and acquisitions tax, and transaction structuring.
Representative experience
Tom Gores of Platinum Equity and owner of the Detroit Pistons, on his purchase of a minority stake in the Los Angeles Chargers.
The Morgan family on their purchase of a limited partnership interest to join Major League Baseball’s Philadelphia Phillies ownership group.
Tampa Bay Lightning and its Chairman & Governor Jeff Vinik on the sale of a portion of the National Hockey League (NHL) club to a group of investors led by Doug Ostrover and Marc Lipschultz.
Fenway Sports Group and a consortium of team owners in a multibillion-dollar partnership with PGA TOUR to launch a new commercial venture that will operate the PGA’s golf assets.
The Levine Leichtman Family Office on its purchase of NWSL’s San Diego Wave Fútbol Club and the addition of numerous strategic partners to the Wave ownership group.
Joe Tsai and Blue Pool Capital on its acquisition of a minority stake in the Miami Dolphins and F1 Racing.
Beijer Ref, a global wholesaler and distributor of HVACR solutions, and its U.S. platform Heritage Distribution Holdings on its acquisitions of Key Refrigeration Supply and Dennis Supply Company.
CAP STRAT (LLC), an institutional retirement plan consulting and wealth management firm, on its sale to SageView Advisory Group.
CNB Financial Corporation (Nasdaq: CCNE) on its acquisition of ESSA Bancorp, Inc. (Nasdaq: ESSA).
Rob Cohen and the Colorado Women’s Soccer Coalition on the acquisition of the rights to operate a new National Women’s Soccer League franchise in Denver.
HMC Capital (ASX: HMC), an alternative asset manager, on its acquisition of StratCap, a North American digital infrastructure investment firm.
Officine Maccaferri, an Italy-based engineering firm offering civil and geotechnical solutions, on its acquisition of Synteen Technical Fabrics.
OptiNose (Nasdaq: OPTN), a specialty pharmaceutical company, on its sale of the company to Paratek Pharmaceuticals.
Relevate Health Group on its acquisition of the pharma and life sciences division of Level Ex Games, a leading developer of medical video games, from Brainlab.
Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) on its acquisition of Zoomin, a leading data management provider for unstructured data.
Credentials
Education
- LL.M., Georgetown University Law Center, Dean’s List with distinction, 2019
- J.D., Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, Valedictorian, 2018
- B.A. in Psychology, Fairfield University, 2013
Bar admissions and qualifications
- District of Columbia
- New York